And she, to doubt my ardourArdour, Jack!why, 'tis very rightwomen, as Miss Howe says, and as every rake knows, love ardours!

'Men of our cast,' this little devil says, 'she fancies, cannot have the ardours that honest men have.'

'His clenched fist to his forehead on your leaving him in just displeasure'that is, when she was not satisfied with my ardours, if it please ye!I remember the motion: but her back was towards me at the time.

Women, whether wives, maids, or widows, love ardours: even Miss Howe, thou knowest, speaks up for ardours,*]Nevertheless, I must say, that you have carried matters too far for the occasion.

The man who knows them, yet has ardours for them, to borrow a word from Miss Howe,* though those ardours are generally owing more to the devil within him, than to the witch without him, is the man who makes them the highest and most grateful compliment.

The man who knows them, yet has ardours for them, to borrow a word from Miss Howe,* though those ardours are generally owing more to the devil within him, than to the witch without him, is the man who makes them the highest and most grateful compliment.

But the particular Narcissus of whom I write was a long way off that thirteenth maid in the days of his antiquarian rambles and his Pagan-Catholic ardours, and the above digression is at least out of date.

This book they loved when their love had grown to have more of earnest purpose in it, and its first hysteric ecstasy had passed into the more solemn ardours of the love that goes not with spring, but loves even unto the winter and beyond.

Nor shall thine ardours cease to glow[f], When souls to blissful climes remove: What rais'd our virtue here below, Shall aid our happiness above.

Would we as children be content to stay, Because the children are as birds all day; Or would we still as youngling lovers kiss, Fearing the ardours of the greater bliss?

He hath no pleasure in his silken skies, Nor delicate ardours of the yellow land; Yea, dead, for all its gold, the woodland lies, And all the throats of music filled with sand.

Too late they would understand that all the joy was in the doing; too soon say to themselves: "Was it for this that our little world shook with such fiery commotion and molten ardours, that this present should be so firm and insensitive beneath our feet?

But the ardours that they bear, The proud and invincible motions of character Thesethese abide.

" Such were the ardours and elevation of his soul.

Day by day he unwittingly became less sure of the moral beauty of restraint, and ardours which he had never dreamed of began to flame free of his soul.

For, how generously we give ourselves up to life, how innocently we put our trust in it, do its bidding with such fine ardours, striving after beauty and goodness, fain to be heroic and clean of heartyet "what hath man of all his labours, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun."

She wrote of these supreme ardours and mysteries; and she wrote that most inspired and vehement song of passionate human love, "Remembrance": Cold in the earthand

As I grew in years, still didst thou blend With all my ardours: thou wast the deep glen; Thou wast the mountain-top, the sage's pen, The poet's harp, the voice of friends, the sun; Thou wast the river, thou wast glory won; Thou wast my clarion's blast, thou wast my steed,

The houses are neither furnished nor put together for the climate, and we are fanned by these congealing winds, as though the apertures which admit them were designed to alleviate the ardours of an Italian sun.

In order to show that I am not here exaggerating, I subjoin a few of the prayers in which I found daily delight, and I do this in order to show how an emotional girl may be attracted by these so-called devotional exercises: "O crucified Love, raise in me fresh ardours of love and consolation, that it may henceforth be the greatest torment I can endure ever to offend Thee; that it may be my greatest delight to please Thee.

" "And I wonder how much of these ardours," she thought, "is kindled by my praise of his verses?"

He had no new creed to proclaim nor old creed to denounce, the inherent miseries of human life did not seem to touch him, nor did he sing the languors and ardours of animal or spiritual passion.

Has not the god of the green world, 5 In his large tolerant wisdom, Filled with the ardours of earth Her twenty summers?

Only one thing; and that was to indulge, in the day-dreams of religion or philosophy, the inward ardours of the soul.

Dropping his middle-class antecedents as completely as he had dropped his middle-class name, young Arouet, the notary's offspring, floated at his ease through the palaces of dukes and princes, with whose sons he drank and jested, and for whose wivesit was de rigueur in those dayshe expressed all the ardours of a passionate and polite devotion.